GROSS NEGLIGENCE.
OF COUNCIL EMPLOYEES
BOY AWARDED £300 DAMAGES
(Per Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, May 7. In the Supreme Court to-day Mr Justice Coopen gave his decision on a motion for a new trial in the case of John Snowdon against the "Waitomo County Council, in which the jury awarded the plaintiff £300 damages for injuries, his left hand having been shattered by detonators found near an abandoned forge. The jury held that plaintiff's injuries were due to the carelessness of the council's workmen. Plaintiff, a boy of 11 years, was playing with other boys near the abandoned forge upon unfenced land, about a chain from the main road. . "
His Honour commented severely on the gross negligence on the part of both the Government ' overseer and the County Council's workmen in \ leaving detonators lying loosely about, arid dismissed the motion for a re-trial, with COSts.'- v '■■■'.-... '."■'.■ ' •' . ■ ,:- , '
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8832, 7 May 1914, Page 5
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